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Fifteen Minute Gap
5.6 YDS 4c French 14 Ewbanks V UIAA 12 ZA S 4b British
Type: | Trad, 60 ft (18 m) |
FA: | Dave Houser & Kendall Downing, April 1976 |
Page Views: | 1,460 total · 8/month |
Shared By: | Eric Burt on May 30, 2006 · Updates |
Admins: | Greg Opland, Mike Morley, C Miller, Adam Stackhouse, Justin Johnsen, Vicki Schwantes, Gunkswest |
Description
This is not a particularly memorable climb, but it does provide an easy way to the top of the formation where TRs can be set for other routes if desired. It is a crack but there are plenty of face moves to augment it as well.
Location
This route ascends the obvious crack on the right hand side of the east face of the formation. The crack is behind the large boulder that hosts the route Political Asylum. One can either start FMG in a small chimney behind the boulder, or scramble up left of the boulder to a nice belay ledge. The latter approach starts on easy face moves to reach the crack.
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